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Opinion | Our Voice | Columns Todd Franko Bertram de Souza David Skolnick Ernie Brown | Letters


‘The worst day in Girard’ reinforces risks, dangers, heroism of police work

Editorial: The initial police call to 408 Indiana Ave. in the typically quiet Parkwood neighborhood of Girard


Levies for mass transit, children deserve support

Editorial: Two days ago, The Vindicator urged voters in a half-dozen Mahoning Valley public school districts


Campbell Judge Cunning is deserving of re-election

Editorial: After 12 years on the bench, Campbell Municipal Court Judge Patrick Cunning no longer displays the


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Renewal of schools levies warrants voters’ support

Editorial: Many school districts and other taxpayer-funded public-service agencies have taken a beating in


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Austintown trustees race: easy, not so easy, decision

Editorial: By any measure, Austin- town Township is doing well in an economic climate that is uncertain at


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Dinopoulos and Weaver endorsed for Poland BOE

Editorial: The Little Red School house, a handsomely restored former one-room school house dating to 1858,


Trump’s attack on media is an assault on democracy

Editorial: Rule by intimidation and edict are the hallmarks of a dictatorship, which is why President Donald


Investigate work, pay rules of Trumbull coroner’s staff

Editorial: In these times of shrinking tax bases and tightening budgets for government entities throughout


Trustees Costello, Calhoun are deserving of re-election

Editorial: By any measure, one of the most important decisions Boardman Township trustees had to make this


Celebrating a season of pride for MLB’s Tribe

Editorial: Sure, hopes ran high as the Cleveland Indians entered the 2017 Major League Baseball season on the


YBI’s Israeli connection is a great technological match

Editorial: Mazel Tof to the Youngs- town Business Incubator for launching an exciting project that stands to


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Attempt to ban fracking in Youngstown derailed

Editorial: Youngstown voters won’t have to contend with the pesky anti-fracking issue in next month’s general


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Let clean-energy centers fuel more Valley growth

Editorial: Such was the clearly understated reaction from Lords- town Mayor Arno Hill last week upon learning


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Brazil’s failure to extradite Claudia Hoerig is insulting

Editorial: Earlier this year, we urged President Donald J. Trump to pick up the phone and call Brazilian


Momentum must continue to combat infant mortality

Editorial: Newly released data from the Ohio Department of Health provide guarded optimism that the Buckeye